It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective.

Ego is the ultimate killer on a team

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

She died praying that she might die.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig, And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!