The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .