Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.