From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

Don't fear opening a Gift God gives you simply because the packaging isn't 't what you expected..we can't know what's in a gift given until it's unwrapped

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.

Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.