We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.

Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.