It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.