The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.