There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.