“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes”

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

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

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone”

“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”

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”