There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

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

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.