"Logic is logic. That's all I say."

"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force."

"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

"A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened."

"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."

"Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall."

"Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater."

"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."

"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."

"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."

"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."

"The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God."

"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."

"If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."

"Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery."

"Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it."

"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."

"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

"Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance."

"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."

"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."

"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

"A new untruth is better than an old truth."

"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."

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

"Have the courage to act instead of react."

"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer."

"Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him."

"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."

"A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop."

"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason."

"Man has his will - but woman has her way."

"The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command."

"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good."

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."

"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

"The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done.""

"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'."

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

"Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge."

"Life is a great bundle of little things."

"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."

"The Amen of nature is always a flower."