You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Think of yourself as a role model for others—showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work—declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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