This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

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

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

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