In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as old as time.

The disposition of mankind, whether as rulers or as fellow-citizens, to impose their own opinions and inclinations as a rule of conduct on others, is so energe…

...for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above th…