Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

Begin where you are and what you are.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.