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There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

There is an indescribable something about work with the hands that tends to develop a student's mind.

The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil.

The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult.

By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. A vague glimpse even of an Analytical Engine at length opened out, and I pursued with enthusiasm the shadowy vision.

A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.

Economic independence is a relative condition at best.

Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.

The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.

The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.

To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study.

Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.