"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."

"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."

"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world."

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world."