Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.

A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.

I have unbelievable support among Republicans.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.