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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Work is love made visible.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

Find your sole delight and recreation in proceeding from one unselfish action to another, with God ever in mind.

Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers?

Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.

Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence

With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.

It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

Now the end, I take it, is all one, to live at more leisure and at one's ease: but men do not always take the right way.

Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

In our ordinary actions there is not one of a thousand that concerns ourselves.

The great law of morality ought to have a national as well as a personal and individual application.