Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.