I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I have no consistency except in politics, and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

The meaning I picked the one that changed my life: Overcome fear behold wonder.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly illusion deception and ignorance but it isn't -it's human.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Lessons are not given they are taken.

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