LIFE is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

HE who lives without a definite purpose achieves no higher end than to serve as a warning to others.

ONE is so apt to think that what works smoothest works to the highest ends, having no patience for the results of friction.

TO live content with small means;  to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; ….this is to be my symphony.

WE are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

DO not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years.   Death hangs over thee.   While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

WHETHER a life is noble or ignoble depends not on the calling which is adopted, but on the spirit in which it is followed.

DO not despise your situation;  in it you must act, suffer, and conquer.   From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Carry no bad habits, no corrupting associations, no enmities and strifes into this New Year.   Leave these behind, and let the Dead Past bury its Dead;  leave them behind, and thank God that you are able to leave them.