The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

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