Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.