Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.