I haven't the quickness which is a business man's enterprise, nor that judgment which is his safeguard.

My newspaper is a success, but it is mainly because I have a capable man in the business office.

It grieves me to disappoint you, and I will take an oath that if I felt myself capable I'd cheerfully give up journalism and place myself at your service." "Father," said Mrs.Witherspoon--and anxiously she had been watching her husband--"I don't see what more he could say." "He has said quite enough," Witherspoon replied.
"But you are not angry, are you, papa ?" Ellen asked.
"No, I'm hurt." "I'm very sorry," said Henry, "but permit me to say that a man of your strength of mind shouldn't be hurt by a present disappointment that may serve to prevent a possible calamity in the future." "High-sounding nonsense.

I could pick up almost any bootblack and make a good business man of him." "But you can't pick up almost any boy and make a good bootblack of him.

The bootblack is already a business man in embryo." Witherspoon did not reply to this statement.