Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.