I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.