Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.