A person of genius should marry a person of character.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

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

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

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

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.