In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.