Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.