By so much as the parent is wiser than the babe for building a protecting shield for happiness and well-being, by that much is the mother indebted to her babe.

Why is one man more successful than another in the street's fierce conflict?
Because he has more resources; is prudent, thrifty, quick to seize upon opportunity, sagacious, keen of judgment.

All these qualities are birth-gifts.

The ancestral foothills slope upward toward the mountain-minded.

And what do these distinguished mental qualities involve?
Recognizing the responsibility of men of leisure and wealth, John Ruskin said: "Shall one by breadth and sweep of sight gather some branch of the commerce of the country into one great cobweb of which he is himself to be the master spider, making every thread vibrate with the points of his claws, and commanding every avenue with the facets of his eyes ?" Shall the industrial or political giant say: "Here is the power in my hand; weakness owes me a debt?
Build a mound here for me to be throned upon.