Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.