The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.