It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.