Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.