I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will enco…

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Ancora Imparo

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.