The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.