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

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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