Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

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.

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!