[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.