In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.