Anonymity is suspect — credible people sign their work.

Anonymity is cowardly — an anonymous pen is a coward's weapon, which stabs in the dark.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Anonymity is often a ruse. An anonymous gift is a donation by someone who hopes everyone will find out without his telling them.

Authority is powerful — You can't fight City Hall

Authority is everything — eloquence is not what the speaker says but who he is that gives weight to eloquence.

Authority is anathema to freedom — Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Authority is everything — people accept an idea more readily if you say Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Boredom is only for the boring.

Boredom is the antonym of solitude.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Boredom is the failure of imagination.

Criticism is toothless. If it had any real power to harm, the skunk would have been extinct by now.

Criticism is showing the object of criticism as beautiful, as magnificent. One has to love what they criticize and give it a new beauty, as 'good destruction requires love'.

Criticism is not denunciation, but working your way back to those problems which an author of genius has posed, all the way back to that which he does not say in what he says, in order to extract something that still belongs to him, though you also turn it against him.

Criticism is best ignored — If it's untrue, disregard it; if it's unfair, keep from irritation; if it's ignorant, smile; if it's justified, learn from it.