A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

'A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,' I continued, 'if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than…

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and alte…

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off unnecessary actions.

Father, I scarcely dare to pray, So clear I see, now it is done, How I have wasted half my day, And left my work but just begun.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.