All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

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 in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.