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

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

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.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.