A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

Appreciation is a better stimulant than money. Money boosts the ego while appreciation touches the soul.

It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus. I do.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.