Learn to labour and to wait.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.