The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.