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.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

He that cannot reason is a fool.