Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

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

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

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.

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

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.