“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”

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

“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf”

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things”

“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts”

“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things”