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

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.