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

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

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.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

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

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.