Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.