We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.