Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
The secret of making progress is to get started.