We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.