Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."