Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.