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

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.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

Only the fearless made proceed. Brave ones, foolish ones. Both walk not the middle road.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.