The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.