There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.