Learned Hand Quote

A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."


"The Preservation of Personality" commencement address at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (2 June 1927); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 32.


A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.