The great need at this hour is manly men. We want no goody-goody piety; we have too much of it. We want men who will do right, though the heavens fall, who believe in God, and who...
In the elder days of Art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere. --LONGFELLOW. Think naught a trifle, though it small appear,...
In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to do it. --W. HUMBOLDT. It is firmness that makes the gods on our side. --VOLTAIRE. Stand firm, don'...
I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance. --SHAKESPEARE. Perseverance is a virtue That wins each god-like act, and plucks success E'en from the spear-p...
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. --EMERSON. The art of putting the rig...
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. --BIBLE. The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himse...
"The blowing winds are but our servants When we hoist a sail." You must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all y...
Quit yourselves like men. --1 SAMUEL iv. 9. Cowards have no luck. --ELIZABETH KULMAN. He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. --EMERSON. To da...
Doing well depends upon doing completely. --PERSIAN PROVERB. He who does well will always have patrons enough. --PLAUTUS. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon,...
If you want to test a young man and ascertain whether nature made him for a king or a subject, give him a thousand dollars and see what he will do with it. If he is born to conquer...
Patience is the courage of the conqueror; it is the virtue, _par excellence_, of Man against Destiny, of the One against the World, and of the Soul against Matter. Therefore this i...
Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things. --TENNYSON. If there be a faith that can remove mountains, it is faith in one's own p...
I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well. --SIDNEY SMITH. The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius. --WHIPPLE. This one sits shivering...
No man ever made an ill-figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. --SWIFT. Blessed is he who has found his work,--let him ask no other blessing. --CAR...
Note the sublime precision that leads the earth over a circuit of 500,000,000 miles back to the solstice at the appointed moment without the loss of one second--no, not the million...
There can be no doubt that the captains of industry to-day, using that term in its broadest sense, are men who began life as poor boys. --SETH LOW. Poverty is very terrible, and so...
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. --CICERO. How great soever a genius may be, ... certain it is that he will never shine in his full lustre,...
Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it. --FRANKLIN. "He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither." None sends his arrow to the mark in...
Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. --SHAKESPEARE. Prefer knowledge to wealth; for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. --SOCRATES....
The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price. --EMERSON. All desire knowledge, but no one is willing to pay the price. --JUVENAL. There is no royal path which leads to g...
Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. --EPH. iv. I. Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. --SELDEN. Less coin, less care;...
The best way to settle the quarrel between capital and labor is by allopathic doses of Peter-Cooperism. --TALMAGE. In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmount...
"Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And this thy last deed ere the judgment day." If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest. --PUBLIUS SYRUS. What is a man,...
It is the live coal that kindles others, not the dead. What made Demosthenes the greatest of all orators was that he appeared the most entirely possessed by the feelings he wished...
Nature, when she adds difficulties, adds brains. --EMERSON. Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. --WENDELL PHILLIPS. Many men owe the grandeur of their...