Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.