An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.