Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.