Steel is prince or pauper.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.