Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.