The Very Minute A Thought Is Threatened

But The Word "right" Is One Of The Most Deceptive Of Pitfalls; It Is So Easy To Slip From A Qualified Meaning In The Premise To An Unqualified One In The Conclusion. Most Rights Are Qualified.

The Provisions Of The Constitution Are Not Mathematical Formulas Having Their Essence In Their Form; They Are Organic, Living Institutions Transplanted From English Soil. Their Significance Is Vital, Not Formal; It Is To Be Gathered Not Simply By Taking The Words And A Dictionary, But By Considering Their Origin And The Line Of Their Growth.

The Joy Of Life Is To Put Out One's Power In Some Natural And Useful Or Harmless Way. There Is No Other. And The Real Misery Is Not To Do This.

The Ideas Of The Classics, So Far As Living, Are Our Commonplaces. It Is The Modern Books That Give Us The Latest And Most Profound Conceptions. It Seems To Me Rather A Lazy Makeshift To Mumble Over The Familiar.

To Be Civilized Is To Be Potentially Master Of All Possible Ideas, And That Means That One Has Got Beyond Being Shocked, Although One Preserves One's Own Moral Aesthetic Preferences.