Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Just turn left at Greenland…
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.