Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers