The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?