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

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.

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.

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

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.