"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."

"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

"The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities."

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."