A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.