There is little success where there is little laughter.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

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

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

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.