The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world. - Louis Brandeis

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

The bow must be strung and unstrung . . . there must be time also for the unconscious thinking which comes to the busy man in his play.

Full and free exercise of this right by the citizen is ordinarily also his duty; for its exercise is more important to the nation than it is to himself. Like the course of the heavenly bodies, harmony in national life is a resultant of the struggle between contending forces. In frank expression of conflicting opinion lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action; and in suppression lies ordinarily the greatest peril.