High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

My best training came from my father.