Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.