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

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.