"The immediate teaching of philosophers may be gentle, but the theory behind their teaching is without compunction—and…"

"“You don’t quench ambition by feeding it any more than you quench a fire the same way,” said Cletus. “To an ambitious…"

"Even as she lay dreaming these dreams, however, a sane part of her mind was still on duty. Realistically, she knew th…"

"“And someone that brilliant must be a devil?” queried Galt, dryly. “Not at all,” explained Donal, patiently. “But hav…"

"“It’s not often I make mistakes,” he said. “Perhaps I can console myself with the thought that when I do they turn ou…"

"“I don’t pretend to be anything but a soldier,” growled Galt. “And it’s precisely that that makes you dangerous in ne…"

"Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?"

"In a climate of confusion, one of the surest ways of confounding the enemy is to tell him the plain truth."

"With the situation fully and correctly understood, it becomes entirely reasonable that the very small fraction of a s…"

"The original role of the machine started to get perverted around the time of the industrial revolution. It came to be…"