If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

The improved means to the unimproved end.