I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization..

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; altho….

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation ….

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is..

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in..

These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by ….

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up..

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's….

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of hi….

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still..

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulder….

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general propos….

There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scent….

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends..

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God..

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end..

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which ….

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen..

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and l….

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be f….

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving..