We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
The business of America is business.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
