Inspirational Quotes

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.