Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl
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[Y]our life is a journey, not a rest. You are travelling to the promised land, from the cradle to the grave. – The Sunday at Home, December 7th 1854