“Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.”

“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked”

“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?”

“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason”

“I am not the least afraid to die”

“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk”