"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"

"Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."

"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

"The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking."

"ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists."

"Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government."

"Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience."

"All movements go too far."

"Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas."