“Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?”

“I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.”

“Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.”

“Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.”

“The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.”

“Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.”