To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.