If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.