To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

To know is not less than to feel.

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

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.