Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.