Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called “modern world” are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters...

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. – Forward