Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

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.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

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.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.