Diligence, Above All, Is The Mother Of

The Path Of Success In Business Is Invariably The Path Of Common-sense. Nothwithstanding All That Is Said About "lucky Hits," The Best Kind Of Success In Every Man's Life Is Not That Which Comes By Accident. The Only "good Time Coming" We Are Justified In Hoping For Is That Which We Are Capable Of Making For Ourselves.

Imitation Is For The Most Part So Unconscious That Its Effects Are Almost Unheeded, But Its Influence Is Not The Less Permanent On That Account. It Is Only When An Impressive Nature Is Placed In Contact With An Impressionable One That The Alteration In The Character Becomes Recognizable. Yet Even The Weakest Natures Exercise Some Influence Upon Those About Them. The Approximation Of Feeling, Thought, And Habit Is Constant, And The Action Of Example Unceasing.

He Who Recognizes No Higher Logic Than That Of The Shilling May Become A Very Rich Man, And Yet Remain All The While An Exceedingly Poor Creature; For Riches Are No Proof Whatever Of Moral Worth, And Their Glitter Often Serves Only To Draw Attention To The Worthlessness Of Their Possessor, As The Glow-worm's Light Reveals The Grub.

Labor Is Still, And Ever Will Be, The Inevitable Price Set Upon Everything Which Is Valuable.

Men Whose Acts Are At Variance With Their Words Command No Respect, And What They Say Has But Little Weight.