If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
—Lemuel K. Washburn
Topics: Wisdom
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
—Lemuel K. Washburn
Topics: Religion
The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature.
—Lemuel K. Washburn
History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment.
—Lemuel K. Washburn
Topics: Ignorance
Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.
—Lemuel K. Washburn
Topics: Honesty
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