A labor that shall fit for heaven,

When duty calls, let love grow warm,

Amid the sunshine or the storm;

With faith, life’s trials boldly breast

Then come a conqueror to thy rest.


As you travel through life, scatter kind words and gentle deeds; in so doing, you will enrich your soul. Withhold them, and it tends to poverty.


May your life be like the day—more beautiful in the evening; like the summer—aglow with promise; and, like the autumn, rich with the golden sheaves, where good works and deeds have ripened on the field.