Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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

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.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.