Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.
Nothing is so infectious as example.
You must not talk about ‘ain’t and can’t’ when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
All but God is changing day by day.
The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again.
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.
Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.