Quotes by Horatio Alger Jr.

“Do you believe niggers go to de same heaven wid w'ite folks, missus?" asked Chloe, after a pause.””

“If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try again!””

“The difference between the rich merchant and the ragged fellow who solicits his charity as he is stepping into his carriage, consists, frequently, not in natural ability, but in the fact that the one has used his ability as a stepping-stone to success, and the other has suffered his to become stagnant, through indolence, or dissipation.””

“Seek all knowledge, however trifling," says an eminent author, "and there will come a time when you can make use of it.””

“It’s the News-boys’ Lodgin’ House, on Fulton Street,” said Dick, “up over the ’Sun’ office. It’s a good place. I don’t know what us boys would do without it. They give you supper for six cents, and a bed for five cents more.”“I suppose some boys don’t even have the five cents to pay,–do they?”“They’ll trust the boys,” said Dick. “But I don’t like to get trusted. I’d be ashamed to get trusted for five cents, or ten either.””

“I shall be satisfied with less," said his mother. "Wealth alone will not yield happiness." "Still it is very comfortable to have it." "No doubt, if it is properly acquired." "If I am ever rich, mother, you may be sure that I shall not be ashamed of the manner in which I became so." "I hope not, Paul.””

“It was my money that you spent. You are a thief!” Phil felt that this was a hard word, which he did not deserve. The money was earned by himself, though claimed by the padrone. But he did not venture to say this. It would have been revolutionary. He thought it prudent to be silent.””

“The rowdy looked at the boy who confronted him. Edward was slightly smaller, but there was a determined look in his eye which the bully, who, like those of his class generally, was a coward at heart, did not like. He mentally decided that it would be safer not to provoke him.””

“I hope my young readers will not infer that I am an advocate of fighting. It can hardly help being brutal under any circumstances; but where it is never resorted to except to check ruffianism, as in the case of my young hero, it is less censurable.””

“it is a custom among the more enterprising street boys, who are capitalists to a small amount, to set up their more needy fellows in business, on condition that they will pay half their earnings to the said capitalists as a profit on the money advanced. This is called "going whacks." It need hardly be said that it is a very profitable operation to the young capitalist, often paying fifty per cent. daily on his loan,”

“Dick may have been lucky," said Mr. Rockwell, "but I generally find that luck comes oftenest to those who deserve it. If you will try to raise yourself I will help you.””

“If his employment is an honest one, it is an honorable one.””

“That Tom should be very conscientious on the subject of truth could hardly be expected.””

“There seemed a popular sentiment in favor of employing boys, and Tom, like others of her sex, found herself shut out from an employment for which she considered herself fitted.””