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

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

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?

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

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.