Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

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

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

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 only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others