Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.