The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

War? War is an organized bore.

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.