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.

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

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.

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

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.

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

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.