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.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.