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

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.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.