John W. Foster's Quotes

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.