Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.