“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn’t know a game is going on?

Revolution’ does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By ‘Revolution’ we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I seek the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

Don’t get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.