We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

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

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.