A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.