America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.