It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.