"Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite."
Amiel's Journal.
JANUARY 3
"A man's greatness lies not in wealth and station, as the vulgar believe, nor yet in his intellectual capacity, which is often associated with the meanest moral character, the most abject servility to those in high places, and arrogance to the poor and lowly; but a man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examination, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does."
George Long.
"Whether a life is noble or ignoble depends not on the calling which is adopted, but on the spirit in which it is followed."
The Pleasures of Life, Lord Avebury.
"Every noble life leaves the fibre of itself interwoven for ever in the work of the world."
Trench.