Every One Who Has Labored

When You Finish A Thing You Ought To Be Able To Say To Yourself: 'there, I Am Willing To Stand For That Piece Of Work. It Is Not Pretty Well Done; It Is Done As Well As I Can Do It; Done To A Complete Finish. I Will Stand For That. I Am Willing To Be Judged By It.'

How True It Is That, If We Are Cheerful And Contented, All Nature Smiles, The Air Seems More Balmy, The Sky Clearer, The Earth Has A Brighter Green... The Flowers Are More Fragrant... And The Sun, Moon, And Stars All Appear More Beautiful, And Seem To Rejoice With Us.

We Cannot Rise Higher Than Our Thought Of Ourselves.

If You Do Not Feel Yourself Growing In Your Work And Your Life Broadening And Deepening, If Your Task Is Not A Perpetual Tonic To You, You Have Not Found Your Place.

Pessimism Has Never Done Anything But Tear Down And Destroy What Optimism Has Built Up.