If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.