Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
A person of genius should marry a person of character.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Certitude is not the test of certainty.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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