John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.
The noblest art is that of making others happy
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.