The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.