"“Come on,” I said. “We have to try. The effort is utterly pointless, but inaction seems an even greater agony.”"

"Freedom! That belabored word! It is a big, empty word, and yet, when some experience reminds us what freedom is, how …"

"Weigh then your wealth, and judge if it’s more dear To you than life. If not, your course is clear."

"Is it not unsettling to consider the blind unlikelihoods that shape one’s fate?"

"While it is foolish to deny the dark around us, it is futile to exaggerate it."

"And I make bold to say that I am not the only one of my countrymen who could profit from taking this admonition to he…"

"By his twentieth year he was a thorough adept in all of what we may term the “carnival arts,” and already a widely tr…"

"Granting that our knowledge be limited, what can it profit us to traffic in lurid fantasies and errant imaginings? Wh…"

"I shall present as certain only those data corroborated by exhaustive research, or by my own personal investigations,…"

"I have in mind the notion that is so fashionable nowadays, namely that we live in a Dark Age where puny Science quail…"