Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.