The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.