Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.