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.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others

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

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.