Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

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.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

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.