When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.