If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.