When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.