The notion that a business is clothed with a public interest and has been devoted to the public use is little more than a fiction intended to beautify what is disagreeable to the sufferers.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes
The most enlightening judicial policy is to let people manage their own business in their own way.
Every idea is an incitement. If offers itself for belief and if believed, it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it, or some failure or energy stifles the movements at its birth.
Read for ideas, not authors.
The elaborate argument… does not need an elaborate answer.
Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
But the character of every act depends on the circumstances in which it is done.
