Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.