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.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.