Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

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

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.