Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

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.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.