The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

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.

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

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.