Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.