"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which al…"

"I would rather be a wood-chopper than a professor of ethics."

"If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I am surprised to find how soon I have forgotten them."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."