The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.