"I believe that the only way to get a man to do a thing is to make him believe that he is doing it of his own free will."

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

"It's a classic… something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."