The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.