Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.