…..be called a laggard, make less money, accomplish less work than they, but be what you were meant to be and can be.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.   When you do a thing, do it with your might.   Put your whole soul into it.

Enthusiasm is the height of man;  it is the passing from the human to the divine.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands, 

And the best servant does his work unseen.

Are circumstances, then, in the last issue, our friends or foes?   There is only one answer – they are what we choose to make them.

Souls within bodies are like dwellers in a wave-washed city, besieged by land but not by sea.   And the city may be taken, but its inhabitants, with all that is worth transport, will have embarked already on some glorious fresh adventure, banners flying and sails set.