** Look back, and smile on perils past. **

There is always a better way.

** Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.**

True friendship is like a second soul.

Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.——J.H. Newman

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. 

Shallow men believe in luck. Self-trust isthe first secret of success.

little pot is soon hot.

Bind the sack before it be full.