The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.