When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.