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

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

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.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.