Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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.

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.

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

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

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