A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

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

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.