Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

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

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.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

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

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