Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.