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

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.