Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.