Rufus Choate
A book is the only immortality.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.Collection: Oracles
Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.Collection: Cat
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.Collection: Power
I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.Collection: Law
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.Collection: Sarcasm
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.Collection: Air
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.Collection: Independence
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.Collection: Kings
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.Collection: Party
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.Collection: Ignorant
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.Collection: Equality
Knowledge is power as well as fame.Collection: Knowledge
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.Collection: Government
Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.Collection: Important
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.Collection: Stars
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.Collection: War