The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.