It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

You can say the same thing nicely.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

Love lost can be found again.

Does God notice when I'm afraid? Note the resolve in the eyes of Jesus as he marches through the storm to rescue his friends.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.