The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.