“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”

“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”

“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”

“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.”

“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”

“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”

“Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.”

“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”

“Work alone is noble.”