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

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

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.

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.

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.

Don't let your past dictate your future,

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.