"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"There cannot be friendship without equality."

"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it."

"To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?"

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country."

"A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."