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

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.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

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

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.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?