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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.