Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...

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. View more images...

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...

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. View more images...

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...

To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. - Phillips Brooks. View more images...