If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

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.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.