Never do wrong when people are looking.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.