The pest of society is egotists.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.