Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.