Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Justice delayed is justice denied.