Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.