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.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

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

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.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

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