Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.