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

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

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

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.

Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or she will not stay. It is not enough that men should vote; it is not enough that they should be theoretically equal before the law. They must have liberty to avail themselves of the opportunities and means of life; they must stand on equal terms with reference to the bounty of Nature.

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

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.