We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also …