Young man, make your name worth something.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

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

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

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 dies rich, dies disgraced.