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.

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.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.