He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Common sense is very uncommon.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
While boasting of our noble deeds we’re careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.