... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.