One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

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