It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

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.