Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.