We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.