That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.