The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?