Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not
pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
= Phillips Brooks, 1835 - 1893

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of
life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
- Phillips Brooks, 1835 - 1893

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in
something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that
would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.- Phillips Brooks, 1835 - 1893

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is
made in the small ones.-Phillips Brooks, 1835 - 1893

Tthere are two kinds of leaders: those who keep their wits about them, and those who keep their half-wits about them.- unk