Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone’s head.
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it.
If parents would only realize how they bore their children.
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.