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

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.