Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.