Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

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

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

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.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.