The Root Of Joy, As Of Duty,

To Be Civilized Is To Be Potentially Master Of All Possible Ideas, And That Means That One Has Got Beyond Being Shocked, Although One Preserves One's Own Moral Aesthetic Preferences.

If There Is Any Principle Of The Constitution That More Imperatively Calls For Attachment Than Any Other It Is The Principle Of Free Thought, Not Free Thought For Those Who Agree With Us But Freedom For The Thought That We Hate.

There Is In All Men A Demand For The Superlative, So Much So That The Poor Devil That Has No Other Way Of Reaching It Attains It By Getting Drunk.

Many Ideas Grow Better When Transplanted Into Another Mind Than In The One Where They Sprung Up.

To Brag Little, To Lose Well, / To Crow Gently If In Luck, / To Pay Up, To Own Up, / To Shut Up If Beaten, / Are The Virtues Of A Sportingman.