Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

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.

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.