Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.