Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.