To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.