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

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.