Honour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.—Ben Jonson
One "do" is worth a thousand "don'ts" in the destruction of evil or the production of good.—Hughes
I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.—Emerson
Remember that though it is a good thing to be a great man, it is a great thing to be a good man.
Striving not to be rich or great,
Never questioning fortune or fate,
Contented slowly to earn, and wait.
In the workshop, on the farm,
Or wherever you may be,
From your future efforts, boys,
Comes a nation's destiny.
It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a high benefit to enable me to do something of myself.—Emerson
Greatly begin! though thou hast time
But for a line, be that sublime,—
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.