The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.