It's So Much Easier To Do Good

I Have Known Not A Few Men Who, After Reaching The Summits Of Business Success, Found Themselves Miserable On Attaining Retirement Age. They Were So Exclusively Engrossed In Their Day-to-day Affairs That They Had No Time For Friend-making.... They May Flatter Themselves That Their Unrelaxing Concentration On Business Constitutes Patriotism Of The Highest Order. They May Tell Themselves That The Existing Emergency Will Pass, And That They Can Then Adopt Different, More Sociable, More Friendly Habits. [but] Such A Day Is Little Likely To Come For Such Individuals.

If The World War [i] Demonstrated Anything It Was That Government Ownership Is Fraught With The Gravest Dangers And Usually Leads To Disaster. Take Britain. The Two Problems Which Have Caused The Greatest Trouble Since The War Ended Have Been Transportation And Coal. The Government Seized Both Industries When The War Broke Out. It Got Them Into Such A Hopeless Mess That It Does Not Know How To Turn [in] Coal; The Government Now Realizes, It Took Hold Of The Tail Of A Wild Animal And Is Afraid To Let Go.

Without Self-respect There Can Be No Genuine Success. Success Won At The Cost Of Self-respect Is Not Success ? For What Shall It Profit A Man If He Gains The Whole World And Loses His Own Self-respect.

Many A Man Thinks He Is Patient When, In Reality, He Is Indifferent.

Are Your Desires Purely Selfish? Do Your Tastes Run To A Grand Home, Automobiles, Fine Clothes, An Abundance Of Amusements, And So Forth? If So, Look Around You At People Who Have Such Things In Superabundance. Are They Any Happier, Do You Think, Than You Are? Are They Any Better Morally? Are They Any Stronger Physically? Are They Better Liked By Their Friends Than You Are By Your Friends? ... Carnegie Said, Millionaires Rarely Smile. This Is Substantially True.