What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.