Systems die; instincts remain.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

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.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.