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.

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.

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

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

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

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.