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.

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 ca…

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

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