Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Even in America, the Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone- but never hust…

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it r…

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but …

The practical implication is that one's goal is to live each moment with freedom, honesty and responsibility.