There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

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

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

War? War is an organized bore.