It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

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

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.