The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization