The crop we gather depends upon the seed we sow.

He may be the biggest genius of the age: his potatoes won't come up without his hoeing them.

If he takes things so almighty easy as--well, as one or two young fellows of genius I 've had under my eye--his produce will never gain the prize.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does n't believe that we 'll wake up to find our work done because we 've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do! If your young protajay finds things easy and has a good time and says he likes the life, it 's a sign that--as I may say--you had better step round to the office and look at the books.

That 's all I desire to remark.