Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.