We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.