I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.