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

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.

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.

Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.