The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

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.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

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

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.