A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

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

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.