Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.