Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.