To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.