My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Third time pays for all

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

The dead should not rule the living