To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

To be young was very heaven!

He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.