“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”

“Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.”

“Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.”

“The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ”

“We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.”

“My dog," he said, "just barks and plays -has all he wants to eat. He never works- has no trouble about business. In a little while he dies, and that is all. I work with all my strength. I have no time to play. I have trouble every day. In a little while I will die, and then I go to hell. I wish that I had been a dog.”