Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.