Daffydowndilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould, Although the March breezes blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay on many a place. I can't do much yet, but I'll do what I can. It's well I began! For unless I can manage to lift up my head, The people will think that the Spring herself's dead. O Daffydowndilly, so brave and so true, I wish all were like you! So ready for duty in all sorts of weather, And holding forth courage and beauty together. --WARNER One to-day is worth two to-morrow's.--POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC The future is purchased by the present.--SAMUEL JOHNSON The sober second thought is always essential, and seldom wrong.--MARTIN VAN BUREN Recollect that trifles make perfection, and that perfection is no trifle.--MICHAEL ANGELO Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. --SHAKESPEARE Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.--O. W. HOLMES Let all the end thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's. --SHAKESPEARE Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Learn to obey and you will know how to command.--LUBBOCK One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. Be not simply good, be good for something.--THOREAU The better part of valour is discretion.--SHAKESPEARE They that touch pitch will be defiled.--SHAKESPEARE Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.--SHAKESPEARE Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. --POPE True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.--BEN JONSON One "do" is worth a thousand "don'ts" in the destruction of evil or the production of good.--HUGHES I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.--EMERSON Remember that though it is a good thing to be a great man, it is a great thing to be a good man. Striving not to be rich or great, Never questioning fortune or fate, Contented slowly to earn, and wait. In the workshop, on the farm, Or wherever you may be, From your future efforts, boys, Comes a nation's destiny.