Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.