A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Man is a tool-using animal.

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.