It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.