Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Study men, not historians.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.