Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.