“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

“There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.”

“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”

“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”

“As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and women say that they will read, and think so—those, I mean, who have acquired no habit of reading—believing the work to be, of all works, the easiest. It may be work, they think, but of all works it must be the easiest of achievement. Given the absolute faculty of reading, the task of going through the pages of a book must be, of all tasks, the most certainly within the grasp of the man or woman who attempts it. Alas! no; if the habit be not there, of all tasks it is the most difficult.”

“This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”