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 knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.