February 29

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.— Ps. xc, 17.

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it:

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it;

Only engage and then the mind grows heated;

Begin, and then the work will be completed.

GOETHE.

Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path for every man; a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do; which could he but be led or driven to do, he were then doing "like a man," as we phrase it. His success, in such case, were complete, his felicity a maximum. This path, to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God, to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier, more blessed, less accursed,—it is a work for a god.

THOMAS CARLYLE.