Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood.Than battle ever knew.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!