Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!