If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

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

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.