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

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.