Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.