Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.