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

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.