The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.