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

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

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.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.