It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.