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

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.