Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

Life is but a collection of habits.