The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.