[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment..

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I do….

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God..

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry..

Old age is fifteen years older than I am..

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all..

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose ….

Every calling is great when greatly pursued..

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic..

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part..

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real….

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thoug….

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife..

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence..

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it..

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility..

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy ….