It Is A Government Of The People

Every Age Has Its Temptations, Its Weaknesses, Its Dangers. Ours Is In The Line Of The Snobbish And The Sordid.

The Ex-presidential Situation Has Its Advantages, But With Them Are Certain Drawbacks. The Correspondence Is Large. The Meritorious Demands On One Are Large. More Independent Out Than In Place, But Still Something Of The Bondage Of The Place That Was Willingly Left. On The Whole, However, I Find Many Reasons To Be Content.

No Man, However Benevolent, Liberal, And Wise, Can Use A Large Fortune So That It Will Do Half As Much Good In The World As It Would If It Were Divided Into Moderate Sums And In The Hands Of Workmen Who Had Earned It By Industry And Frugality. The Piling Up Of Estates Often Does Great And Conspicuous Good.... But No Man Does With Accumulated Wealth So Much Good As The Same Amount Would Do In Many Hands.

[t]his Free And Easy Old-bachelor Sort Of Life Is Quite Full Of Fun And Jollity. Pease And Myself Room Together; And Everything Like Order And Neatness Is Banished From Our Presence As A Nuisance--old Letters And Old Boots And Shoes, Duds Clean And Duds Dirty, Books And Newspapers, Tooth-brushes, Shoe-brushes, And Clothes-brushes, All Heaped Together On Chairs, Settees, Etc., In Dusty And "most Admired Confusion." Now, What Is There Imaginable In Clean, Tidy Private Life Equal To This?

Honesty, Good Intentions And Industry, You Will Have Of Course. Without These Your Career Would Soon End With The Loss Of Your Good Name. But You Must Be Ambitious To Be A Good Deal More. Webb Hayes, His Son, Went On To Found What Had Become The Union Carbide Corporation.