Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.