Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

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.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas