Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.