There are two classes, those who want to know and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing but… - Samuel Butler

Ideas and opinions, like living organisms, have a normal rate of growth which cannot be either checked or forced beyond a certain point. They can be held in check more safely than they can be hurried. They can also be killed; and one of the surest ways to kill them is to try to hurry them.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

A little boy and a little girl were looking at a picture of Adam and Eve. "Which is Adam and which is Eve?" said one. "I do not know," said the other, "but I could tell if they had their clothes on."