We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Growth is the only guarantee that tomorrow will be better.

“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”

A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Weve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.