We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

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.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

The right is more precious than peace.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.