Edmund Burke born 1729.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi born 1746.
François Coppée born 1842.
John S. Sargent born 1856.
Show the thing you contend for to be reason; show it to be common
sense; show it to be the means of attaining some useful end. The
question with me is not whether you have a right to render your
people miserable, but whether it is your interest to make them
happy.
--Edmund Burke.
Like the star
That shines afar,
Without haste
And without rest,
Let each man wheel with steady sway
Round the task that rules the day,
And do his best.
--Goethe.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth
not itself, is not puffed up.
--1 Corinthians 13. 4.
Gracious Father, cause me to be critical of my life, that I may not be
deceived in myself. Help me to look into my soul and see what thou
dost find there; and with humility may I acknowledge what I am to
thee, and seek thy wisdom and love. Amen.