Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

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

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

What one does easily, one does well.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

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