If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

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

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.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.