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

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

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

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

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