We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

William Sutton

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

William Allen White

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Bishop Robert South

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

Charles Eastman

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

George Eliot

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

Rene Descartes

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Honore de Balzac

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

Randall Terry

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins