It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.