“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service
“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today
“The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat
“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind