Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

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

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.

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. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

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