“Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.”
“Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion. ”
“The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.”
“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ”
“Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.”
“Thou most lying slave,Whom stripes may move, not kindness!”