The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been swept away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship still survives, in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie.
We lose vigor through thinking continually the same set of thoughts. New thought is new life.
—Prentice Mulford.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
—Carlyle.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
—Ruskin.
Nay, never falter; no great deed is done
By falterers who ask for certainty.