To Think Great Thoughts You Must Be

History Has To Be Rewritten Because History Is The Selection Of Those Threads Of Causes Or Antecedents That We Are Interested In.

Society Is Always Trying In Some Way To Grind Us Down To A Single Flat Surface.

The Most Stringent Protection Of Free Speech Would Not Protect A Man In Falsely Shouting Fire In A Theater And Causing A Panic.

And Silence, Like A Poultice, Comes To Heal The Blows Of Sound.

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.