"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."

"Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time."

"You can never plan the future by the past."

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing."

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority."

"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."

"The envier praises me unknowingly."

"I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise."

"If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."

"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."