People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

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.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.