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The burdens of government should as far as practicable be distributed justly and equally among all classes of our population.

Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.

Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.

She is besotted with innocent little ambitions, and does not understand this apparent waste of herself, this elaborate preparation, if no work is provided for her.

Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.

Remember, then, that I, at least, have warned you, that the happiness of your life, and its power, and its part and rank in earth or in heaven, depend on the way you pass your days now.

The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means?

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.

In all public expenditures the most rigid economy should be resorted to, and, as one of its results, a public debt in time of peace be sedulously avoided.

Such increase is destined to keep pace with the growth of our population, until, without a figure of speech, an army of officeholders may be spread over the land.

There was a Care on my Mind so to pass my Time, that nothing might hinder me from the most steady Attention to the Voice of the true Shepherd.

I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.

Work is love made visible.

It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

The observed worker should be made to realize the purpose and importance of the measurement.

These possibilities of mental development are still further increased when the man makes his own records. This leads to closer attention, to more interest in the work, and to a realization of the man as to what the record really means, and what value it represents.

In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.

Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers?

No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.

the mind can convert and change everything that impedes its activity into matter for its action; hindrance in its work becomes its real help, and every obstruction makes for its progress

You must make up your mind to steady and earnest work. You must be content to get on slowly if you only get on thoroughly.

Shirking responsibility has never been a fault with which colored women might be truthfully charged.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.