If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.