Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.