Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.