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.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Perhaps I am more than usually jealous with respect to my freedom. I feel that my connection with and obligation to society are still very slight and transient…

As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my wor…

...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain communi…

'Good governance is also about rooting out corruption, which is a stain on the integrity of any nation.'

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.