“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene”

“I am not the least afraid to die”

“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 wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them”

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

“It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it”