Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

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

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.