Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

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

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

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.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

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