I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.