My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.