If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

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

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

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.