"Philosophy! the lumber of the schools...." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.”

“Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.”

“Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs,Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.”

“The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.”

“Maybe the heart is part of the mist.And that's all that there is or could ever exist.Maybe and maybe and maybe some more.Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.”

“Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else”

“I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.”

“Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!”

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”