Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.