I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.