It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. -William Graham Sumner Jealousy
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. -William Graham Sumner Fathersday
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. -William Graham Sumner Fitness