If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.