Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

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

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

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.