"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."
"Work alone is noble."
"Every noble work is at first impossible."
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
