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?

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

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.

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