Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.