All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Do real and permanent good in this world.

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.

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

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.