There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

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

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.