One must apply oneself to the present and keep one's eyes firmly fixed on one's future goals.

Let it be one of the chief lessons of experience to keep hope alive without entirely satisfying it, by preserving it to make oneself always needed even by a patron on the throne.

Pure religion undefiled before our God and father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.