It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who 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.'

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

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.