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

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.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

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.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

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