Many a word at random spoken may soothe or wound a heart that’s broken. -Walter Scott

Example sheds a general ray of light that men are apt to borrow; so first improve yourself today, and then improve your friends tomorrow. -Valentine Vousden

The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. -Alfred Tennyson

Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. -H.W. Longfellow

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, sincere earnestness. -Charles Dickens

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. -John H. Payne

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close something attempted, something done, has carried a night’s repose. -H.W. Longfellow

Count that day lost whose low descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done. -James Bobart

Small service is true service while it lasts, of friends, however humble scorn not one;  The daisy, by the shadow which it casts, protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. -William Wordsworth

Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise from the lowly earth to the vaulted skies.  And we mount to its summit round by round. -J.G. Holland