Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

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

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.