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 advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

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 root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

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.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.