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

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.