It is better to support schools than jails.

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

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.