I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Everybody likes a compliment.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.