If we ask for the Parcel Post, and ask in faith, we will get it. He alone is a pauper who neither inspires nor yet provokes love. The education gained at the expense of nerves and digestion is of small avail. Ideas are fine but we must have them materialized. Today America wants people who can lubricate the vast national machine, reduce the friction and waste and all that impairs its value or work.
Extraordinary things are a matter of persistency and patience.
There is in the human heart a certain way of holding the Diogenes lantern by which may be met a man. Every great and excellent thing in the world has had to fight for its right to live. Prosperity, success and pleasure may be rough in grain and course in fiber, but sorrow is ever the most sensitive of all things God has made. Any one who has a really serious desire to improve humanity's job-lot, should begin on the aggregation contained within his own epidermis. In every village are wise men who sit on the fence in summer, and near the stove in winter, and tell how things should be done.