In these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our
fortresses.--_Heinrich Heine._
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the
one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence
becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a
mere weed by the same change. Healthy growths may become poisonous by
falling upon the wrong mental soil, and what seemed a night-shade in one
mind unfolds as a morning-glory in the other.--_Holmes._
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues.
It impales and sustains.--_Taine._