If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.