Be satisfied with nothing but your best.
—Edward Rowland Sill.
Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.
—Ruskin.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you ... a hundred virtues which the idle never know.
—Charles Kingsley.
Foresight is very wise, but foresorrow is very foolish; and castles are, at any rate, better than dungeons in the air.
—Sir John Lubbock.
It requires a sterner virtue than good nature to hold fast the truth, that it is nobler to be shabby and honest, than to do things handsomely in debt.
—Juliana H. Ewing.