In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Life is but a collection of habits.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.