The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Fashions are induced epidemics.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.