“Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.”

“Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.”

“Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.”

“The noblest art is that of making others happy”

“We touch the last reality directly in prayer.”

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”

“If George Apley failed to meet certain challenges, let us admit that we all have failed in some respects, and let us remember that we stand together peculiarly as one large family. Collectively, in habits and ideals, our group is a family group where kinship, however distant, stretches into the oddest corners.”