Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.