He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.