Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

Children and fools always speak the truth