"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs."

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint... but in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut finger…"

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."