Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

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.

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.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.