The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

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

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.