The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplant….

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience..

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old..

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world..

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children..

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so..

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure..

Three generations of imbeciles are enough..

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command..

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do..

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer..

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going..

This is a court of law, not a court of justice..

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked..

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government..

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out..

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatis….

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius..

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out..

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound..

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned..