"I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free …"

"Business today consists in persuading crowds."

"It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead."

"A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want."

"The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand."

"What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity."

"Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu."

"Crowds speak in heroes."

"America is a tune. It must be sung together."

"There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always…"