To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.