I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.