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.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

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.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.