I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.