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.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.