If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.