On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

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.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.