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

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.