I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. – Andrew Carnegie
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. – Andrew Carnegie

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. – Andrew Carnegie
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. – Andrew Carnegie
The morality of compromise sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men dont compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. – Andrew Carnegie
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. – Andrew Carnegie
Dr. Richard Bentley (1662-1742)… is said one day, on finding his son reading a novel, to have remarked—’Why read a book that you cannot quote?’— a saying which affords an amusing illustration of the nature and object of his literary studies. – Cyclopædia of English Literature edited by Robert Chambers, 1844