He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

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

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.