The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose never swerves, Whose slightest action or inaction serves The one great aim. Why, even Death… — Ella Wilcox Wheeler Copy Share Image
