The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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.

The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

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