Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.