Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.