A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. |
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. |
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports |
Choose an author as you choose a friend. |
Choose an author as you choose a friend. |
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. |
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. |
Experience is the extract of suffering. |
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land |
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. |
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. |
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. |
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? |
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? |
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss -- a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. |