I can't afford to pay them any other way.

I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

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

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.