give!--John Lancaster
Spalding.

Fear begets fear.--A. E. Winship.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a
man and fix our attention on his infirmities!--Addison.

There can be no true rest without work and the full delight of a
holiday cannot be known except by the man who has earned it.--Hugh
Black.

The more we do the more we can do; the more busy we are the more
leisure we have.--Hazlitt.

Lost--a golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. There is no
reward, for it is gone forever.--Beecher.

Good company and good conversation are the sinews of virtue.--Stephen
Allen.

A triumph is the closing scene of a contest.--A. E. Winship.

Don't forget that the man who can but doesn't must give place to the
man who can't but tries.--Comtelburo.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered,
then act with promptitude.--Sallust.

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CHAPTER IV

SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES

I would rather be right than president!"

At first thought those words seem to be the declaration of an
unusually upright and conscientious person. But let us study them a
little more deeply and closely.

The desire to do right and to deserve the approbation of all good
people is very strong in every human breast. Not until a man has lost
his moral sense of values would he trade his integrity and self-respect
for any other gift the world could offer. This being true, who among
us would care to be president if in order to occupy that exalted
position he must be obviously in the wrong?

Thus we see that after all is said and done, the one great prize for
which we all aspire is the love and good will of our friends and of
the world. For no matter how much of wealth and fame may come to us,
without the love and respect of our fellow beings we must ever remain
poor and friendless.

He is the richest who deserves the most friends. Wealth is a matter of
the heart and not of the pocket. A thousand slaves piling up wealth
for their master cannot make him rich. It is not that which others do
for us that makes us possessors of great wealth, but that which we do
for others. All true riches are self made. Only when the hand and the
heart are put into one's work does it yield a lasting worth. In the
final true analysis the picture forever belongs to the painter who
paints it; the poem to the poet who writes it; the loaf o