To Be Master Of Any

If I Had A Formula For Bypassing Trouble, I Wouldn't Pass It Around. Wouldn't Be Doing Anybody A Favor. Trouble Creates A Capacity To Handle It. I Don't Say Embrace Trouble. That's As Bad As Treating It As An Enemy. But I Do Say, Meet It As A Friend, For You'll See A Lot Of It And Had Better Be On Speaking Terms With It.

Detached Reflection Cannot Be Demanded In The Presence Of An Uplifted Knife.

Blood Is A Destiny. One's Genius Descends In The Stream From Long Lines Of Ancestry.

There Is Nothing Earthly That Lasts So Well, As Money. A Man's Learning Dies With Him, As Does His Virtues Fade Out Of Remembrance, But The Dividends On The Stocks He Bequeaths To His Children Live And Keep His Memory Green.

Knowledge-it Excites Prejudices To Call It Science-is Advancing As Irresistibly, As Majestically, As Remorselessly As The Ocean Moves In Upon The Shore.