The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.