Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit.

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.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

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

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

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