Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

Passion makes every detail important.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.