The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

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 greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.