The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.