Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
The world is God's workshop for making men in.
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.