Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Some stories aren't black and white.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

The only true immortality lies in one's children.

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.