“Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.”

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I am done with this creed of corruption.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.

Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.