Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.