Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.