If you know not the highest love, you can not depict the highest joy. Man has a many-sided nature, and like the moon reveals certain phases at certain times. Many a successful man goes through life with a spray of mistletoe pinned to his coat tail. The world is progressing about as fast as the stupidity of its preachers and reformers will admit. The less you require looking after, the greater is your reward.
Courage is a matter of getting used to it.
I certainly am sincere, although I am not always serious. It is well to refrain from mentioning what we intend to do, or intend not to do, since we are all sailing under sealed orders, and nothing is so apt to occur as the unexpected. Look upon any new idea as a possible one, until you know positively that it isn't. A good kick may start a stone rolling, when otherwise it rests on the mountainside for a generation. Read the lives of great men and you will come to the conclusion that it is harder to find a gentleman than a genius.