General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

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.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.