As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.