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

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?

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.

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

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Would I ever find the perfect note to fill the music sheet that I had?

I'll be here tomorrowIf I can make it through today.

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

A bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it's not worth it.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Hope is the best contraceptive.

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.