The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.