The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.