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The heart is convinced that custom is a virtue. The heart of the dirty working man rebels when the State insists that he shall be clean, for no other reason than that it is his custom to be dirty.
fit and proper people
The best system depends utterly on the man's power of resolution. And what really counts is not the system, but the spirit in which the man handles it.
Now, the proper spirit can only be induced by a careful consideration and realization of the man's conditions—the limitations of his temperament, the strength of adverse influences, and the lessons of his past.
Hopes are never realized; for in the act of realization they become something else.
Our leading advertisers have richly proved that the public will believe anything if they are told of it often enough.
the majority do not desire success.
Naturally the average man dreams vaguely, upon occasion; he dreams how nice it would be to be famous and rich. We all dream vaguely upon such things. But to dream vaguely is not to desire.
But the unfortunate creature, as you and I can so clearly see, has confused happiness with pleasure. She runs day and night after pleasure—that is to say, after distraction:
