Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

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.

I can't afford to pay them any other way.

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

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.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.