Henry D. Thoreau.

We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors.

Canon Farrar.

Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin.

The best way of training the young, is to train yourself at the same time; not to admonish them, but to be seen always doing that of which you would admonish them.

Plato.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

Ruskin.

Landor’s definition of a great man: He who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.