Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

The end of man is action.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.