About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.