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

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

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.

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.