Optimism Is A Tonic. Pessimism Is Poison.

Is America Becoming Decadent? Do We No Longer Regard Our Promises And Pledges As Sacred? ... We Promised To Make Peace With Germany Only In Conjunction With The Allies; But We Brought Forward A Separate Peace, Demanding For Ourselves All The Advantages Of The Treaty Of Versailles But Rejecting All The Responsibilities Embodied In The Treaty. It Was America's President Who Induced Europe To Form A League Of Nations; And Then America Was The First Country That Refused To Joint It.... If These Are Not The Symptoms Of National Decadency, What Are They?

Money, Or Even Power, Can Never Yield Happiness Unless It Be Accompanied By The Goodwill Of Others.

When The Worms Are Scarce, What Does A Hen Do? Does She Stop Scratching? She Does Not. She Scratches All The Harder. A Lot Of Businessmen Have Been Showing Less Sense Than A Hen Since Orders Became Scarce. They Have Laid Off Salesmen; They Have Stopped Or Reduced Their Advertising; They Have Simply Resigned Themselves To Inaction And, Of Course, To Pessimism. If A Hen Knows Enough To Scratch All The Harder When The Worms Are Scarce, Surely Businessmen ... Ought To Have Gumption Enough To Scratch All The Harder For Business.

I Resolve For 1920 To Sit Down All By Myself And Take A Personal Stock-taking Once A Month. To Be No More Charitable In Viewing My Own Faults Than I Am An Viewing The Faults Of Others. To Face The Facts Candidly And Courageously. To Address Myself Carefully, Prayerfully, To Remedying Defects.

If You Do The Best And The Most You Can Today, Don't Worry About Tomorrow.