Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

A living thing is born.