Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each individual.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts, our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

When youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years. But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not. But remember the sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born and will still be shinning when thy last grandchild pass into darkness.

The thoughts of youth are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors thay oft make brilliant the sky but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailors may depend upon them to steer his course.