Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.