Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

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

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

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.