Pretty Much All Law Consists In Forbidding

The Very Minute A Thought Is Threatened With Publicity It Seems To Shrink Towards Mediocrity.

Knowledge And Timber Shouldn't Be Much Used Till They Are Seasoned.

Free Competition Is Worth More To Society Than It Costs.

The Ideas Of The Classics, So Far As Living, Are Our Commonplaces. It Is The Modern Books That Give Us The Latest And Most Profound Conceptions. It Seems To Me Rather A Lazy Makeshift To Mumble Over The Familiar.

The Difference Between Gossip And Philosophy Lies Only In One's Way Of Taking A Fact.