Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.