Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.