The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.