Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.