Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

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

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.