Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.