"Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."

"I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility."

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."