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.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

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

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

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

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.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.