If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

There is little success where there is little laughter.