If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.