What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future—a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin to-day to build my own truer and better world from within.
—H. W. Dresser.
I am an enemy to long explanation; they deceive either the maker or the hearer, generally both.
—Goethe.
He who is false to present duty, breaks a thread in the loom, and will find a flaw, when he may have forgotten the cause.
—Henry Ward Beecher.
“When the outlook is not good, try the uplook.”
Every advance we make toward the realization of the truth of the permanence and immanence of law, brings us nearer to Him, who is the First Cause of all law and all phenomena.
—David Starr Jordan.
When in the mid-day march we meet