We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

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.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.