“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others”

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

East or West Home is best.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it

air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him, men who were cleverer than himself

Do real and permanent good in this world.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I will show you a winner everytime.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

How can he be perfect? Everything he ever makes, dies.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.

People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.