A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.

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.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.