Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Their children learned the lesson of compromise only too well, and it was the application of it to a question of fundamental morals that cost us our civil war.…

The democratic theory is that those Constitutions are likely to prove steadiest which have the broadest base, that the right to vote makes a safety - valve of …

Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put …

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through 'reminiscence,' that is by 'remembering,' by intuitively searching into our own e…

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is n…