There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.