All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.