Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.