"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."

"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."

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by 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."

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

"Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."

"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long."

"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest."

"'Human reason is by nature architectonic.'"

"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive."

"There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own."