I can't help preferring champagne to ditch water — I doubt if the universe does. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.

Freedom of expression matters most where the expression in question is unpopular: if it is to mean anything, it must mean ‘freedom for the thought that we hate.

Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and without parade as solid work as one can when one is occupied, one makes the best contribution possible to one's state.