“ Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. ”

“ It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

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

“ Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. ”

“ Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ”

“ Beware how you take away hope from another human being. ”

“ 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. ”