Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
--LINCOLN.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
--EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.
Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
--FRANKLIN.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
--DISRAELI.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
--NEW TESTAMENT.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand sweet song.
--KINGSLEY.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
--POPE.
In vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our dealing;
The Ten Commandments will not budge,
And stealing will continue stealing.
--LOWELL.