» Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
» Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere -- ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
» A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
» Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
» Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
» Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
» The secret anniversaries of the heart.
» Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
» Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
» For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.