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

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.