Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

A little faith can do wonders.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.