Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.