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

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

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

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.