He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

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.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.