The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.