Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.