Ezra Cornell

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

I broke with my religion in college.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.