We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.