Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.