SELF-CONTROL you must start with.
It makes life worth while. It frees you from the danger of remorse, the wasted time of self- reproach. It sees opportunities as they come; saves you from damaging temptation. It is as important to a brain as is physical equilibrium to a work of masonry.
A man without self-control, a building out of plumb, cannot endure.
JUSTICE.
It is the foundation of all reputation worth the having. It is to man as necessary as the compass to a ship. It is the compass.
Justice will give reputation for greatness though you create nothing great. It will win affectionate reverence in life and a gratifying gravestone at life's end. ——
IMAGINATION.
Greatest gift to man. It finds him grovelling here a pithecoid littleness.
The rough hair is gone from his body. His thumb has lost its monkey smallness; he walks flat on his feet.
But beyond that he has naught else to thank material nature for.