I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe. - Andrew Carnegie

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection?

Every person who can, even at a sacrifice, make the voyage around the world should do so. All other travel compared to it seems incomplete, gives us merely vague impressions of parts of the whole.

It is now thirteen years since I ceased to accumulate wealth and began to distribute it. I could never have succeeded in either had I stopped with having enough to retire upon, but nothing to retire to.