I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.