There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.