The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.