I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.