—Carlyle
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
—Hooper
Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.—Longfellow
Opinions shape ideals, and it is ideals that inspire conduct.—John Morley
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself into one.—Froude
Not once or twice in our fair island story
The path of duty was the way to glory.
—Tennyson