“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed
“Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself
“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven
“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work
“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach