Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.