Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes..

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible..

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement..

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins..

Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, ….

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace..

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It s….

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists..

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race..

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectu….

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected..

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of ene….

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one..

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a m….

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end..

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort..

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done..

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in….

Imitation is a necessity of human nature..

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society..

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental concepti….