There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. True, "not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Heavenly Father's knowledge," but they do fall, nevertheless.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.