Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.