... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.