You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.