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

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

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

The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

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.