What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.