Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

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

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.