I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory manage...ment.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of our major professional sports, golf alone retains the lyrical innocence with which it began centuries ago among Scottish herdsm...en slapping the gutta-percha ball around the bonny banks. Golf alone, despite huge purses, has remained immune to the violence and vulgarity that have turned other sports into spectacles of sanctioned mayhem. The game, as Andrew Carnegie believed, is an "indispensable adjunct of high civilization." No other group of professionals is self-ruled by an honor code in which players call penalties on themselves. Golf etiquette prevails. Can football etiquette or hockey etiquette be imagined? Golf has no Charles Barkley, who has spit at fans. It has no John McEnroe, the obscenity-shouter, nor does it have enforcers, late-hitters, or self-absorbed clods who moan that they aren't paid enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as the ...evening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,...r />Strong and content I travel the open road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of s...cience has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »