Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.

The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.