These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

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

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

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

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.