As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.