What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
Henry David ThoreauThere is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.
Henry David Thoreau