To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.