The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.