Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.