I am nothing, truth is everything.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.