Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

That man is idle who can do something better.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.