“Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.