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

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.