How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.