Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
Man errs as long as he struggles.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
Every second is of infinite value.
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.