I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.