History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.

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

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 device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

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. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.