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.

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.

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.

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

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

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.