Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.