Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

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 wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

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