There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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.