We must look a long time before we can see
And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
Argument is not always truth.
I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.
Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.
Light has spread, and even bayonets think.
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.
I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. . . occasionally, stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.
For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.