A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.