It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States.