The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.