Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.