Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.