The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with sty….

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold..

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God..

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post..

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force..

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact..

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith..

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death..

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view..

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling ac….

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity..

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it..

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise..

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of ….

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger ….

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe..

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man..

Eloquence may set fire to reason..

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cos….