If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. I like to think the days are steps On which You've set my feet, And I must climb them one by one, Dear God, until we meet. A kindly act is a kernel sown That will grow to a goodly tree, Shedding its fruit when time has flown Down the gulf of eternity. Speech is great but silence is greater. The only time when I am liable to be wholly wrong is when I know I am absolutely right.
Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way.
Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. The test of your character is what you would do if you knew no one would ever know. It is better to do little things by obedience, than great things by one's own will. Ora et labora. The child is father of the man.