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All wealth is the product of labor.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.