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

Economic independence is a relative condition at best.

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

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.

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.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.

Let us try this--every woman to work as though success depended on herself.

Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.

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

Free trade in labour and equality of training, intellectual or physical, is essential if the organic aptitudes of a sex or class are to be determined.

The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

The ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.