Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.

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

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

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.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

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