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.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.