The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

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

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.