Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.