Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.