We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

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

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 ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.