There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.
. . . the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.
I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.
My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.