“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided
“The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.