Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

by George Horace Lorimer

Life isn’t a spurt, but a long, steady climb.

I learned right there how to be humble, which is a heap more important than knowing how to be proud.

There are two things you never want to pay any attention to—abuse and flattery. The first can’t harm you and the second can’t help you.

Worrying is the one game in which, if you guess right, you don’t get any satisfaction out of your smartness.

the time to do your worrying is when a thing is all over,

With most people happiness is something that is always just a day off. But I have made it a rule never to put off being happy till to-morrow.