Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

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.

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

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.