No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.