Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.