Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.