All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.