Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

There is no accounting for human beings.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.