A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

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

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Libraries raised me.

Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.

Always the same thing.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

Let's build Paradise again.

If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.