“One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.”
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.