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.

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.

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

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

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