Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?”
Book I, satire i, line 48
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
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Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) American Labor Leader[AFL]
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
William Makepeace Thackeray book The History of Henry Esmond
Bk. II, ch. 1.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
“A man may own a thousand acres of land, and yet he still sleeps upon a bed of five feet.”
Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 38 (Chinese saying)
III, lines 234-242, John Dryden, trans.
Satires, Satire III
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”
George Raymond Richard Martin book A Dance with Dragons
Source: A Dance with Dragons. Jojen
“An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.”
Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.