Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.