I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

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

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

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