Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.