The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

There is no advance without strife.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.