“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”

“Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”

“Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.”

“When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. ”

“Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. ”