The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.