I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.