For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

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.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?