All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.