If A Pig Could Pray, It Would

For My Part, I Rather Distrust Men Or Concerns That Rise Up With The Speed Of Rockets. Sudden Rises Are Sometimes Followed By Equally Sudden Falls. I Have Most Faith In The Individual Or Enterprise That Advances Step By Step. A Mushroom Can Spring Up In A Day; An Oak Takes 50 Years Or More To Reach Maturity. Mushrooms Don't Last; Oaks Do. The Real Cause For An Enormous Number Of Business Failures Is Premature Over-expansion, Attempting To Gallop Before Learning To Creep. Sudden Successes Often Invite Sudden Reverses.

Cheerfulness Is Among The Most Laudable Virtues. It Gains You The Good Will And Friendship Of Others. It Blesses Those Who Practice It And Those Upon Whom It Is Bestowed.

It Can Be Set Down As A Broad, General Principle That We Cannot Indulge In Idleness And Abundance During Both The First And Second Half Of Our Life. Study, Application, Industry, Enthusiasm While We Are Young Usually Enable Us To Enjoy Life When We Grow Older. But Unless We Toil And Strive And Earn All We Can In The First Half, The Second Half Of Our Life Is Liable To Bring Disappointment, Discomfort, Distress. The Time To Put Forth Effort Is When We Are Most Able To Do It, Namely, In The Years Of Our Greatest Strength. The Law Of Compensation Hasn't Ceased To Function.

Many Concerns Now Make Part Or The Whole Of Their Dividends From By-products That Formerly Went To Waste. How Do We, As Individuals, Utilize Our Principal By-product? Our Principal By-product Is, Of Course, Our Leisure Time. Many Years Of Observation Forces The Conclusion That A Man's Success Or Failure In Life Is Determined As Much By How He Acts During His Leisure As By How He Acts During His Work Hours. Tell Me How A Young Man Spends His Evenings And I Will Tell You How He Is Likely To Spend The Latter Part Of His Life.

Golf Without Bunkers And Hazards Would Be Tame And Monotonous. So Would Life.