Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

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.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.