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

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.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

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

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.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.