Quote #21479
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Quote #7082
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
Quote #24599
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government...
Quote #21236
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed...
Quote #31179
Every man dies. Not every man lives.
Quote #31672
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces...
Quote #24871
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life … I am terribly...
Quote #10304
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Quote #24625
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
Quote #656
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our...