“It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.”

“I cannot be associated with a publication that dumps a staff member simply because his work has upset some readers. Journalism, when done well, always angers some readers, and it is the duty of the newspaper or magazine’s editors and managers to stand by writers and other members of the staff when readers complain about the analysis and opinions expressed by its staff. This is all the more true in the case of editorial cartoonists, whose very job is satire—and a good satirist never pauses to worry about angering the citizenry.”

“The little book of Antoninus has been the companion of some great men.”

“No bird has ever uttered note that was not in some first bird's throat; since Eden's freshness and man's fall no rose has been original.”

“The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.”

“The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”

“It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface.”

“I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.”

“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”

“I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement…”