O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.