Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!
A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such...
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
Life is a great bundle of little things.