Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.