"Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

"Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave."

"This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."

"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

"The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others."

"Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love."

"Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work."

"'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'"

"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."