Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.