Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
Being willing is not enough. We must do.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?