The following is an excerpt from the book The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur
You cannot put a fire out;/A…
The whole plan laid itself smoothly out before me, and I slept no more that night, but worked on it as…
“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in…
The most familiar sheet of water viewed from a new hilltop, yields a novel and unexpected pleasure. When we have traveled a few…
“There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the…
In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin; A grass-blade’s no easier to make than an oak, If you’ve once found the way…
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a person does not keep pace with…
“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it…
Why should we be more shy of repeating ourselves than the spring be tired of blossoms or the night of stars? Look at Nature. She…