Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.