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

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

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

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.