Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

What others think of you is not as important as what you think of yourself.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to 'conquer.' It's about realizing a dream.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.

Only a fool would make the bed every day.

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.