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.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Systems die; instincts remain.