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

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.

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

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

The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.