The most important service rendered by the press is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known.

It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.

Never read anything until not to have read it has bothered you for some time.

If science tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. It if tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water, it is all wrong.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever, or amiable.