The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”