Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

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

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

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.

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

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.