Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.