I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.