Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.