Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.