If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

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.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.