A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!