Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's...
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.