Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

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