It is better to support schools than jails.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.