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

"There is a history in all men's lives, figuring the nature of the times deceased."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"To be able to choose between the two, and to choose the better, is one of the highest privileges of man."

"The more you know, the more you see."