The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

An endeavor to please elders is at the bottom of high marks and mediocre careers.