The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.