Pioneering don't pay.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

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.

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.