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

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.