Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.