There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.