To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.