Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.