The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

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

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

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

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.