A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be moved from th… - Andrew Carnegie

the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

It may fairly be said that no man is to be extolled for doing what he cannot help doing, nor is he to be thanked by the community to which he only leaves wealth at death. Men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all had they been able to take it with them. The memories of such cannot be held in grateful remembrance, for there is no grace in their gifts.

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