Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

To a valet no man is a hero.

Method will teach you to win time.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.