One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

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

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.