Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

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

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.