It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.