Know thy work and do it, and work at it like a Hercules. One monster there is in the world—an idle man.—Carlyle
Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.—Emerson
In every common hour of life,
In every flame that glows,
In every breath of being rife
With aspiration or of strife
Man feels more than he knows.
—W. W. Campbell
Never to the bow that bends
Comes the arrow that it sends;
Never comes the chance that passed:
That one moment was its last.
Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know ere long,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
—H. W. Longfellow
Sow an act, and reap a tendency; sow a tendency, and reap a habit; sow a habit, and reap a character; sow a character, and reap a destiny.—Thackeray
The gifts that we have, heaven lends for right using, and not for ignoring, and not for abusing.
It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.—Journal—Amiel