The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.