"I cannot see where you have made any progress since the last time I was here," a visitor to the studio of Michelangelo …

— Watter Dupiey Cavert

God gives every bird its food, but He doesn’t throw it in the nest.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

Let me say to every one that is beginning life: Do not begin with exaggerated ideas of your own worth. Do not think that…

— H. W. Beecher

A rather lazy student noticed that a fellow student always recited her lessons well, so he said to her, "How is it that …

— Unknown

The Christian must not only mind heaven, but attend diligently to his daily calling, like the pilot, who, while his eye …

— T. Watson

He who distrusts the security of chance takes more pains to effect the safety which results from labor. To find what you…

— Bulwer